A) Come up with 2 IDEAS for a 6-10 second character animation.
- Your animation should follow this prompt:
- "CHARACTER X” (action word) ________________”
- Examples:
- "Joe sits down in a chair”
- “Jessica is hungry.”
- “Chance eats a hamburger”
- When you come up with this action, your character should do 2 IMPORTANT THINGS:
- 1) Have an emotion or feeling about what they are doing. (Why are they doing this?)
- 2) Have a solid REACTION and RELEASE to what they are doing. (How do they feel after doing it?)
We are asking this question: “What’s the point!?”
You want to make note of the GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES of your performance:
Here is how to add the “Given Circumstances" to your scene:
Step 1) Put yourself in your character’s shoes. Be your character.
Step 2) As yourself these questions:
- Who am I?
- Where am I?
- What do I want?
- What do I do when I get what I want?
- What do I do when I don’t get what I want?
Step 3) Answer these 5 questions!
B) Do research on CHARACTERS and ENVIRONMENTS (both live action and animated)
- find examples that reference the kind of story you are trying to tell!
- Look at the elements we talked about today!
- >>> Big, Medium, and Small Shapes
>>>SHAPE SYMBOLISM
>>>Color Symbolism
>>>Posturing and Stance (Staging)
>>> POSING IS KEY!
C) Start making character designs and environment designs for this six second animation!
- for the sake of next class, I want QUANTITY. You are allowed to bring in sketches! But your sketches must be CLEAR and easy to understand.
- At least 10 environment sketches and 10 character designs (at least 2 sketches per character)
- WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU: IS at least 5 environments and character designs per idea!
D)Bring your research and designs in MONDAY!
E) OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT:
- go to a public place and do at least 10 drawings of people and environments around you!
